On digital ocean (at least) you can upload your own images and boot droplets directly from them. In the past I've used a script called "alpine-make-vm-image" t

On digital ocean (at least) you can upload your own images and boot droplets directly from them. In the past I've used a script called "alpine-make-vm-image" to run alpine images in digital ocean. https://github.com/alpinelinux/alpine-make-vm-image https://github.com/alpinelinux/alpine-make-vm-image (Maybe that script does some magic to make booting a droplet directly from the image possible. On that I plead ignorance :)